The Year's Finest Fantasy

Copyright 1978. This is the first in this annual series. This is a collection of outstanding stories that brings you the best from the strange, wonderful, and unpossible world of fantasy. Selected and edited by famed anthologist Terry Carr, the masterful and surprising stories in this collection are a tribute to the popularity and seriousness of the field of fantasy. They come from the acknowledged "greats" and from unexpected sources as well - sources as diverse as The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Woody Allen. But, all have this in common: they assault the imagination, expand the limits of the possible, and penetrate beneath the orderly surface of things to the swirling mysteries that lie at the heart of existence. They are fantasy at its finest.